Queensland, Australia News

JUSTIN Ryan was happy to be reunited with hubby Colin McAllister after getting the boot from I'm A Celebrity last night.

A man who dove face-first into an extremely venomous, peanut-sized jellyfish in the waters off northeast Australia was flown to a hospital intensive care unit, officials said Friday.

Queensland police have launched an internal investigation after officers drove over a woman sleeping in a Townsville park.

A VICTORIAN couple who gave their 10-week old baby girl an ecstasy tablet have been given a suspended sentence.

A New Zealand man living in Queensland and believed to be behind the world's largest spam operation, has been ordered to pay more than $16 million for running the illegal enterprise.

New research has proven what many Aussies long suspected - Australia is a magnet for New Zealand's most unskilled workers.

CLYDE GRAF: Anti-1080 film maker. Film maker Clyde Graf, one of the family duo that claims the moral high ground in the anti 1080 campaign, has convictions for bank robbery.

Melbourne, Nov 30 : Aussies have beaten the Americans to become the owners of the largest houses in the world, says a new report by Commonwealth Securities, also known as CommSec.

CHOGM: Queen expected to attend Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Perth.

Fire bans have been extended in nine council areas across southern and central Queensland as temperatures hover around the mid-30s. Fire bans in Rockhampton, Banana, Gladstone, Bundaberg, North Burnett, Fraser Coast, South Burnett, Cherbourg and Gympie will continue until midnight on November 30.

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THE family of Nigel Brennan says paying the ransom demanded by his Somali kidnappers was their "last roll of the dice" after the Government declined to come up with the money.

We should have seen this coming... Updated 7:30 AM EST, Thu, Nov 26, 2009 K-Fed has slimmed down and found a job.

Exercise seems to simultaneously make people hungrier, yet more readily satisfied by a meal -- and differences in these responses from person to person may help explain why some exercisers shed pounds more easily than others, researchers say.

AN Australian Army soldier allegedly shot two boys with an air rifle in a Townsville playground in what one victim's family describe as a "hate crime". Digger Craig James Gordon, 31, is accused of wounding two boys, aged eight and 10, after allegedly firing on a group of seven mostly Aboriginal children playing footy in a park in the north ...

AUSTRALIAN kidnap victim Nigel Brennan says he was kept in chains, pistol-whipped and feared for his life during 15 months in a Somali hellhole.

Discredited Firepower boss Tim Johnston has failed to appear in a Perth court for a public examination today of his company's collapse.

Brett Christensen ... the interneta TMs Clark Kent. IT WAS the great Chocolate Bar Bomb scare.

Byron Bay's Splendour In The Grass music festival is moving to south-east Queensland.

A PORTRAIT believed to be an 18th century British masterpiece worth about $1 million has been uncovered by chance.